Mary Warren

Mary Warren (1672-) was the servant of John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor and one of the accusers and the accused during the Salem Witch Trials. She was the oldest accuser during the trials, and she later retracted a statement saying that Abigail Williams and her friends were liars, claiming that John Proctor had forced her to make the confession.

Biography
Mary Warren was from the town of Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of New England, and she was indentured to John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor after Elizabeth dismissed Abigail Williams for having an affair with John. She claimed that she had fits and visions about Giles Corey's ghost, and Abigail accused Mary of sending her spirit to stab her with a needle in the chest, based on the fact that Mary had put a needle into the chest of a doll that she gave to Elizabeth. Mary later said that John Proctor was a witch and renounced her confession of Abigail and her friends' guilt, leading to Proctor's execution, and she survived the trials.